Tag Archives: travelling

Remembering you.

Posted on October 28, 2013 by RosieL

My friend comes to visit. We have not seen each other, face to face like this, for over two years she estimates. We have not spoken together on the phone for over a year. But our friendship spans close to … Continue reading →

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Somebody showed me a picture.

Posted on October 17, 2013 by RosieL

At our book group we don’t bother much, if at all, with the book we’ve just read. Or not opened, because, life. We catch up with each other, with the news and with the gossip. And out come the phones. … Continue reading →

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The day the world didn’t end.

Posted on September 11, 2013 by RosieL

It’s just about, almost, nearly but not quite, two years since I was in New York. We didn’t arrive until after September 11th. We planned it that way. After nearly three decades of wanting to go to New York, I … Continue reading →

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A day in that very big apple.

Posted on April 30, 2013 by RosieL

So. The injury sustained whilst gardening and assumed at first to be in the lower back, then to be hamstring related, is in fact sciatica. Which is just a word. For sometimes screaming pain radiating out from behind my right … Continue reading →

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Of mice and …. pigeons.

Posted on March 18, 2013 by RosieL

My auntie is very happy about the new Pope. “He’s just what we need,”she says with great enthusiasm. Although she was a bit keen for the Filipino candidate to get up. She tells me he’s a karaoke singer and a … Continue reading →

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Three a.m.

Posted on March 16, 2013 by RosieL

It’s been too hot to sleep and at three o’clock in the morning you may as well go googling as do anything else. Things come to mind then that may escape you in the daylit hours. And one thing can … Continue reading →

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Writing the big apple.

Posted on November 4, 2012 by RosieL

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy I signed into my Twitter account, and my eyes fell first onto a tweet from @TeriTynes. She had written : “I’d like to know more about the mental state of the local woman who … Continue reading →

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Home and away.

Posted on June 30, 2012 by RosieL

My daughter comes home. In the too-early morning frenzy of showering and dressing and having a coffee jolt I check that the plane will be on time. It’s running ahead of schedule. Whoever heard of such a thing? What can … Continue reading →

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People talk of situations.

Posted on May 13, 2012 by RosieL

I’m reconstructing a little piece of my garden. Digging, weeding, edging with bricks. Claiming back some pathway from the weeds. It’s a dirty, muddy, yet immensely satisfying job. Especially when you’re getting very little assistance from your left arm. Up … Continue reading →

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Flickr – ing.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by RosieL

I’ve been putting some (hundreds) of my trip photos on Flickr. Trawling through them, sorting, fiddling with, listing, uploading, tagging, labelling, admiring. It’s a big project I’ve taken on. I live my days around it. I don’t do it all … Continue reading →

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